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Notre Dame to get 400m riverside park under new redevelopment plans

By 2022-07-04T06:00:00

Notre Dame 3

Source: Bas Smets

Belgian landscape architect Bas Smets named as winner of competition three years after cathedral lost its roof in devastating blaze

The grounds of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris will be reimagined as a clearing in a forest and flanked by a 400m riverside park under new redevelopment plans which aim to encourage more Parisian’s to visit the 800-year-old landmark.

Belgian landscape architect Bas Smets has been named as the winner of an international competition launched in spring last year to complement ongoing repairs to the building, which was ravaged by fire in 2019.

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